SpaceX Heavy Rocket Launch in FL Today!

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Feb 6th 2018, 8:21 pm

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Re: SpaceX Heavy Rocket Launch in FL Today!

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"Don't Panic"

I hope there was a towel on board.

Feb 6th 2018, 8:22 pm

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Wow

Feb 6th 2018, 8:42 pm

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Kim Jong-un, eat your heart out!

Feb 6th 2018, 8:42 pm

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Watched the launch from my roof 50ish miles away west of Disney and although i only witnessed the 'orange glow' for around 2 or 3 mins still a 'wow' for me to!

Feb 6th 2018, 9:10 pm

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Extremely impressive.... those side boosters returning simultaneously was even more than extremely impressive!

Feb 6th 2018, 9:13 pm

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Re: SpaceX Heavy Rocket Launch in FL Today!

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I hope for your sake it launches today! Not for Elon Musk though... Always nice watching something go wrong for that slimy weasel

Why don't you like him?
I hear the poor guy suffers from terrible depression.

Feb 6th 2018, 9:16 pm

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Extremely impressive.... those side boosters returning simultaneously was even more than extremely impressive!

That image was straight out of a childhood dream for me.

Pure sci-fi.

Feb 6th 2018, 9:21 pm

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Meh a football fan would probably be saying
Could he do it at Stoke on a cold rainy night?

Feb 6th 2018, 9:39 pm

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Feb 6th 2018, 9:41 pm

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God damn, that's cool as ****.

Feb 6th 2018, 9:51 pm

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.. Always nice watching something go wrong for that slimy weasel

Yes, and all those thousands of people who rely on him for their jobs and benefits.

Feb 6th 2018, 10:02 pm

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Yes, and all those thousands of people who rely on him for their jobs and benefits.

Yes... I completely forgot he was the only person that had any say in his companies and he was the only decision-maker. That controlling board on his companies (that recently negotiated salaries and company goals/forecasts) must just play Jenga 24/7...

Feb 6th 2018, 10:03 pm

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Hats off to Elon Musk both for this rocket and for Tesla. Cool that he combined the two :-)

Feb 6th 2018, 10:10 pm

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None of his companies would exist without him. So consider him the sole decision maker. He's probably not a nice bloke, for some reason niceness is antithetical to serious business success, but he deserves his props for what he has achieved. It is the British way to drag people down when they have been successful. I don't miss it.